Vesta/en

Vesta is a simple management interface for administering web services. It includes all of the installation packages that you require for administering your web services.

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• Nginx Proxy and Apache2 Web server
• bind9 - DNS server
• MySQL database server and phpmyadmin
• E-mail server (exim4)
• RoundCube -webmail
• Dovecot
• Fail2ban
• FTP server (vsftpd)
• SSL support and SNI (Server Name Identification)
• DKIM support
• Fast backups
• Monitoring your system using graphs and other information
• Virus protection and filtering spam mail
• EPEL software storage
• Easy to use and streamlined interface
• Automatic updates
• Graphical interface for firewall configuration

Installation

Make sure that you have APT packet management capability in your network. The installation program downloads packages from online repositories.

System requirements:

CPU: 768Mhz
Ram: 512M
HDD: 20Gb
OS: RHEL/CentOS 5,6

Vesta also works on Debian / Ubuntu.

Debian/Ubuntu

Download installation package

 wget http://vestacp.com/pub/vst-install.sh

Install the package

 bash vst-install.sh

Wait for the installation to finish. DO NOT close the terminal window!

If you run into an error while beginning to install, you can override it using the --force attribute.

 bash vst-install.sh --force

Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora

Download installation package

 curl -O http://vestacp.com/pub/vst-install.sh

Install the package

 bash vst-install.sh

Wait for the installation to finish. DO NOT close the terminal window!

Configuration

After installing Vesta you can configure it using your web browser in the address

 https://[server_ip]:8083

A username and password will automatically be printed once the installation program is finished.

Switching a users' password

We recommend that you change the password for the admin user immediately after logging in for the first time.

Click on "admin" (your username) from the top right corner.

Type in the new password and select Save from the bottom of the page.

New Web page

Navigate to the Web tab and select Add Web Domain

Define the domain name, for instance example.com

The alias will automatically be defined (e.g. www.example.com), you can manually add and change aliases if you wish.

Removing the control panel

This removes the Vesta control panel but not the other packages or applications.

Debian/Ubuntu

Stop service

 service vesta stop

Remove packages and software

 apt-get remove vesta*
 rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vesta.list

Remove user folder and cron

 rm -rf /usr/local/vesta

Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora L

Stop service

 service vesta stop

Remove packages and software

 yum remove vesta*
 rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/vesta.repo

Remove user folded and cron

 rm -rf /usr/local/vesta

Sources

https://www.omaserveri.info/vesta-hallintapaneelin-asennus/ (Finnish)

https://www.omaserveri.info/lisaa-domain-vesta-cp-hallintapaneeliin/ (Finnish)

http://vestacp.com/docs/#how-to-install-vesta

https://forum.vestacp.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3912#wrapper